tormentful

English

Etymology

torment +‎ -ful

Adjective

tormentful (comparative more tormentful, superlative most tormentful)

1. Full of torment; causing, or accompanied by, torment; excruciating.
   • a. 1694, John Tillotson, On the Happiness of good men (sermon)

     Malice, and envy, and revenge , are unquiet paſsions; and in what nature soever they are, they are as vexatious and tormentful to itself, as they are troublesome and mischievous to others

   • 1901, John Payne, transl., The Book of the Thousand Nights and One Night, El Asmaï and the Three Girls of Bassora:

     Three like the dawnings of new-born day, they ravished every heart; Yea, tormentful to the yearner’s soul were they, these maidens three.

References

• “tormentful”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.